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This racing season was another record year for Team Galloway placing well in the Beargrease 150, Mid-Night run and the Red River Dog Derby. Don't miss out on an opportunity to be a part of Team Galloway for the 2009-2010 racing season.

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Team Galloway

5180 Farmers Road

Makinen, MN 55768.

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Trail is great for racers, By John Pepin

WETMORE — In an exciting finish, Minnesota’s Don Galloway won the Midnight Run Saturday for the second year in a row.Spectators cheered as the frost-covered faces of Galloway’s orange-booted lead dogs could be seen rounding a corner through the cold early morning darkness in Wetmore.With temperatures sunk to near 10 degrees below zero, Galloway of Makenin, Minn., crossed under the wooden arch and over the blaze orange finish line painted in the snow at 7:24 a.m.“It’s great,” Galloway said. “I won last year so it’s fun to come back and be able to retain the title.”The mushers race 49 miles to a layover at Deerton in Alger County before continuing on another 42 miles to the Wetmore finish line, located just south of M-28 about four miles east of Munising.Galloway said his eight-dog team performed well. Temperatures were cold and the trail was hard and fast. There were a couple of icy hills near Marquette, but the rest of the trail was good, he said.“The dogs were just awesome, and they’re what it’s all about,” Galloway said. “They were dog-o-mite.”

Galloway wins John Beargrease mid-distance sled dog race

Here is a nice article by Andy Greder of the Duluth News Tribune published Tuesday, January 29, 2008. It's a great article. That got national press.

BEARGREASE NEWS CLIP

RACE RESULTS

2008

BEARGREASE 150 CHAMPION

MID-NIGHT RUN CHAMPION

APOSTLE INLANDS 4TH PLACE

RED RIVER DOG DERBY CHAMPION

RED RIVER DOG DERBY BEST KEPT TEAM AWARD

2007

MID-NIGHT RUN CHAMPION

APOSTLE INLANDS 4TH PLACE

2006

BEARGREASE 150 2nd PLACE

BEARGREASE BEST KEPT TEAM AWARD

BEARGREASE 150 4th PLACE

MID-NIGHT RUN 2ND PLACE

MID-NIGHT RUN 12TH PLACE

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Team Galloway

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WE HATE GLOBAL WARMING

• It does not rain!
• A big fire may burn all our houses down!
• It causes bad weather!
• We get extra hot and have to hide in the shade!
• We catch new viruses from Florida!
• It makes our masters grumpy!
• We may never be able to run to the north pole - only doggy paddle

THE TEAM_GALLOWAY MISSION

To be a responsible, positive, competent, and competitive team representing the best of Minnesota mushing.

To have the team finish each race healthy, happy, and wanting to continue.

To challenge ourselves to continue in the face of difficulty and in spite of hardship.

To share the love of mushing and the bond formed between human and animal to children of all ages.

To contribute back to our community.

MINNESOTA SLED DOG HISTORY

Sled dog activities, as recreation and friendly competition, may have existed for almost as long as the relationship between dogs and humans, in the regions where snow was a seasonal probability. The first written account of a race was an informal challenge between travelers on the route from Winnipeg to St. Paul in the 1850's. In 1886, the first Saint Paul Winter Carnival featured sled dog races and ski competitions to glorify the attractions of winter in Minnesota. Sled dog races have been part of the Winter Carnival to the present day. The most memorable event was the 1917 race from Winnipeg to Saint Paul, on which a recent Walt Disney movie (Iron Will) was loosely based. In reality the race that year was won by Albert Campbell, a Metis from The Pas, Manitoba followed by his brother in second place.
*Taken from IFSS "mushing a breif history of the sport."

MONSTER MUSH

Running at night is scary and somewhat dangerous. But also exciting and a lot of fun. We run at night for three primary reasons. If it is too warm during the day, during hunting season or if it is a special occasion such as Halloween, Winter Solstice, New Years Eve and of course, our annual date, on Valentines Day.

The dogs can’t run above 50 degrees without risking overheating. We use the 100 point rule—add up the temperature and the humidity—if it is 100 or less we can run. Even if the temps are near 50, we need to stop often and water the dogs so they will cool down. So during the early part of fall we often need to run at night when it is cooler.
We live in a pretty remote area, which means lots of woods, which also means there are lots of hunters out during deer season. We want to respect their time in the woods and also not risk being mistaken for a deer! So that means running at night when hunting does not take place.
Nothing is more fun than running at night on some special occasion such as Halloween —especially if the moon or Northern Lights are out. This year we are planning a camp out during the Halloween weekend, inviting some friends of ours to come along, and are going to call the event “The Monster Mush!” I of course plan on wearing my Dracula teeth!

For safety sake we train the dogs to stay on the right side of the road/ trail at all times, the leaders wear flashing red lights and we installed reflective signs to our ATV’s to warn vehicles coming up from behind.